Mordaunt Hall
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 17 March 2022 06:43 (two years ago) link
(Constable) Grenville Bint
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 23 April 2022 09:05 (two years ago) link
A young Italian tennis player who's just qualified for the main draw at Santa Margherita di Pula is named Benito Massacri.
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 04:15 (one year ago) link
Damian Eggs
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 23:18 (one year ago) link
J. David Sweatt
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Monday, 30 May 2022 14:25 (one year ago) link
Tenille Arts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenille_Arts
Sounds like a small college focusing on 70s soft rock and muskrat biology.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 9 July 2022 05:08 (one year ago) link
Several years ago a family in the local area named their son Walt Disney Christmas:https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/5358651.disney-he-look-like-his-father/
Thus giving him the full name Walt Disney Christmas Pain (his dad's surname is Pain). "Dad Nicholas David, who celebrated his 40th birthday on New Year's Eve, is such a big fan of Disney, he had Snow White and all seven dwarves tattooed on his back at the age of 18." Imagine if that man had been a huge fan of early turbojet designs. He might have called his son Centrifugal Flow Jet Turbine Pain instead.
I used to know someone on Facebook called Lemon Otter, but that is of course a fantastic name: http://www.lemonzingers.co.uk/about-lemon.html
― Ashley Pomeroy, Saturday, 9 July 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
Boris Johnson
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 9 July 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
Alexander is his real first name btw.
― Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 July 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link
Yes, which makes his decision to go by "Boris" even more puzzling.
Also: Elon Musk.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 9 July 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
More memorable. When you say Boris everybody knows who you're referring too. I'm not sure if it's true, but I've heard his family call him Alexander.
― Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 July 2022 20:20 (one year ago) link
I always think of "Boris the Spider."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 9 July 2022 20:22 (one year ago) link
Orson Ossman, son of Firesign Theatre member David Ossman. Named after Orson Welles.
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 9 July 2022 22:01 (one year ago) link
Petronella Wyatt came up yesterday
petronella? middle name Aspasia.
― koogs, Sunday, 10 July 2022 07:56 (one year ago) link
Sebastian Bear-McClard
― Sudden Birdnet Thus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 11:18 (one year ago) link
https://drjohnnydrain.com/
― Tom D: panel beater, bouncer and tree surgeon (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 July 2022 13:48 (one year ago) link
Izzy Posen
― peace, man, Sunday, 24 July 2022 10:49 (one year ago) link
Amanda Rock
― (grim) pump track (wales) (map), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 20:26 (one year ago) link
Hatchet M. Speed
― sweating like Cathy *aaaack* (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 8 September 2022 13:48 (one year ago) link
not so much abysmal but...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Bongo_Ondimba
― koogs, Friday, 9 September 2022 07:43 (one year ago) link
mainly because of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Bongo_(magician)
― koogs, Friday, 9 September 2022 07:44 (one year ago) link
(drat, even {url} tags didn't fix the missing last ) problem)
― koogs, Friday, 9 September 2022 07:45 (one year ago) link
Can it be fixed by putting it as text within URL quotes?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Bongo_(magician)
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 9 September 2022 13:03 (one year ago) link
Nope!
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 9 September 2022 13:04 (one year ago) link
i'm sure i have done it before maybe like this? - using the first example in the formatting
― koogs, Friday, 9 September 2022 21:17 (one year ago) link
That worked on Zing
― sweating like Cathy *aaaack* (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 9 September 2022 21:58 (one year ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topham_Beauclerk
― koogs, Monday, 12 September 2022 16:55 (one year ago) link
Simultaneously awesome and odd:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roar_Strand
I found that name after reading about another Roar Strand, a fighter pilot:https://www.i-f-s.nl/accidents-incidents-1980/
"During a ground controlled approach to Bodø Airbase, this F-104G suffered a substantial loss of engine power. The pilot, Roar Strand, realised he would not reach the runway and decided to eject. He landed with minor injuries in Valnesfjorden."
So there are or were at least two people in the world called Roar Strand. In fact Roar is apparently not all that unusual - it's the Norwegian equivalent of "Roger" - and there are a tonne of footballers with that name:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roar_(given_name)
Including Roar Christensen, Roar Hagen, Roar Johansen, a different Roar Johansen, and Roar Stokke.
Is Norway one of those places where there's a limited number of names, as in e.g. Iceland? I don't know much about Norway.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
or e.g. Wales
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:52 (one year ago) link
Not really limited as such, but heavily subject to trends (as I'm sure is the case elsewhere). To see the popularity of e.g. "Roar", visit the homepage of Statistics Norway, look for "Navnesøk", enter "Roar" and click the button, and you will find that out of Norway's 2,737,332 males, 6,581 have Roar as their first forename. Click the "Historisk utvikling" dropdown, and you'll see that it was particularly popular from about the end of WWII to the early 1970s – with a quite spectacular drop from 1973 to 1974. Intriguing.
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
(Btw, a less-used, Old Norse-inflected variant, is Hroar; 81 men as of now.)
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 20:55 (one year ago) link
d3m4rr g4rdn3r
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 3 October 2022 22:30 (one year ago) link
bl4ne l0gan
― ꙮ (map), Sunday, 6 November 2022 20:39 (one year ago) link
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5XBNh_5_y1A/maxresdefault.jpg
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 November 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
When they Indigo, I Rumblelow
― nickn, Thursday, 10 November 2022 18:41 (one year ago) link
The name's more twee than abysmal but the association with the Just Stop Oil movement is unfortunate as it fits the media stereotype of a Just Stop Oil activist a bit too neatly.
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 November 2022 18:47 (one year ago) link
that's a great name imo
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Saturday, 12 November 2022 00:28 (one year ago) link
i agree honestly, except think the 'oh' sounds are awkwardly situated. abysmal names to me are like hard white consonants and vowels mashed up together. parents who should have known better, somehow they missed that the full name was objectively ugly. mr. and mrs. gardner thinking that 'demarr' is fab just because grandpa was named that or w/e. when you say demarr gardner you sound like a yorkie barking at a passing car imo. that is probably way too much thought about what an abysmal real name is that no one asked for.
― ꙮ (map), Saturday, 12 November 2022 02:10 (one year ago) link
indigo is a lovely name but i'm a hippie so *shrugs*
― ꙮ (map), Saturday, 12 November 2022 02:12 (one year ago) link
It does sound like a refrain from an English folk song/ sea shanty
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Saturday, 12 November 2022 11:06 (one year ago) link
Young Boozer https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/m/0dgpy28&hl=en-AU&q=Young+Boozer&kgs=93908d333ac907d9&shndl=17&source=sh/x/kp/osrp/4&entrypoint=sh/x/kp/osrp
― Bellend Sebastian (S-), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 04:39 (one year ago) link
legit thought that was a rapper
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link
Is the Onion's head writer *really* called 'Chad Nackers'... Because, that.
― Bellend Sebastian (S-), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 10:40 (one year ago) link
let us not forgethttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0ATPKgadF4
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 21:33 (one year ago) link
one of my mom's friends just had a grandson whose middle name is "Hercules". his first name? Milton!!!!!
― frogbs, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
xp featuring a starkly serious CBC interview of Lewis Lapham! Canadians are funny.
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
xp so sad just name your kid hercules, you can call him herc, great name imo
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 22:52 (one year ago) link
Hey Herc! Hey Herc!
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYzdhMzIwMmQtNGIxMS00M2ExLWI1M2MtMDQ4YTcwODZmNzJjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNDcwNDI2MTk@._V1_.jpg
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Thursday, 24 November 2022 07:27 (one year ago) link
Two from the realms of football coaches:Jeff SaturdayHugh Freeze
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 23:53 (one year ago) link
speaking of I saw an NFL coach (iirc?) named D3an Pees
I would change my last name if I were named Pees
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 00:01 (one year ago) link